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Landing a UAV in Harsh Winds and Turbulent Open Waters
Parakh M. Gupta, Eric Pairet, Tiago Nascimento +1
Landing an unmanned aerial vehicle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on top of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in harsh open waters is a challenging problem, owing to forces that can…
Model-Based Underwater 6D Pose Estimation from RGB
Davide Sapienza, Elena Govi, Sara Aldhaheri +5
Object pose estimation underwater allows an autonomous system to perform tracking and intervention tasks. Nonetheless, underwater target pose estimation is remarkably challenging d…
Nukhada USV: a Robot for Autonomous Surveying and Support to Underwater Operations
Èric Pairet, Simone Spanò, Nikita Mankovskii +5
The Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has recently finished the production and testing of a new unmanned surface vehicle, called Nukhada, specific…
Underwater Robot Manipulation: Advances, Challenges and Prospective Ventures
Sara Aldhaheri, Giulia De Masi, Èric Pairet +1
Underwater manipulation is one of the most remarkable ongoing research subjects in robotics. \acp{I-AUV} not only have to cope with the technical challenges associated with traditi…
From market-ready ROVs to low-cost AUVs
Jonatan Scharff Willners, Ignacio Carlucho, Tomasz Łuczyński +10
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are becoming increasingly important for different types of industrial applications. The generally high cost of (AUVs) restricts the access to…
Building Affordance Relations for Robotic Agents - A Review
Paola Ardón, Èric Pairet, Katrin S. Lohan +2
Affordances describe the possibilities for an agent to perform actions with an object. While the significance of the affordance concept has been previously studied from varied pers…
Path Planning for Manipulation using Experience-driven Random Trees
Èric Pairet, Constantinos Chamzas, Yvan Petillot +1
Robotic systems may frequently come across similar manipulation planning problems that result in similar motion plans. Instead of planning each problem from scratch, it is preferab…
Affordance-Aware Handovers with Human Arm Mobility Constraints
Paola Ardón, Maria E. Cabrera, Èric Pairet +4
Reasoning about object handover configurations allows an assistive agent to estimate the appropriateness of handover for a receiver with different arm mobility capacities. While th…
Self-Assessment of Grasp Affordance Transfer
Paola Ardón, Èric Pairet, Ronald P. A. Petrick +2
Reasoning about object grasp affordances allows an autonomous agent to estimate the most suitable grasp to execute a task. While current approaches for estimating grasp affordances…
Online Mapping and Motion Planning under Uncertainty for Safe Navigation in Unknown Environments
Èric Pairet, Juan David Hernández, Marc Carreras +2
Safe autonomous navigation is an essential and challenging problem for robots operating in highly unstructured or completely unknown environments. Under these conditions, not only…
Affordances in Robotic Tasks -- A Survey
Paola Ardón, Èric Pairet, Katrin S. Lohan +2
Affordances are key attributes of what must be perceived by an autonomous robotic agent in order to effectively interact with novel objects. Historically, the concept derives from…
Robots in the Danger Zone: Exploring Public Perception through Engagement
David A. Robb, Muneeb I. Ahmad, Carlo Tiseo +14
Public perceptions of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) are important in the acceptance, uptake, government regulation and research funding of this technology. Recent rese…
Learning Generalisable Coupling Terms for Obstacle Avoidance via Low-dimensional Geometric Descriptors
Èric Pairet, Paola Ardón, Michael Mistry +1
Unforeseen events are frequent in the real-world environments where robots are expected to assist, raising the need for fast replanning of the policy in execution to guarantee the…
Learning Grasp Affordance Reasoning through Semantic Relations
Paola Ardón, Èric Pairet, Ronald P. A. Petrick +2
Reasoning about object affordances allows an autonomous agent to perform generalised manipulation tasks among object instances. While current approaches to grasp affordance estimat…
Reasoning on Grasp-Action Affordances
Paola Ardón, Èric Pairet, Ron Petrick +2
Artificial intelligence is essential to succeed in challenging activities that involve dynamic environments, such as object manipulation tasks in indoor scenes. Most of the state-o…
Learning and Composing Primitive Skills for Dual-arm Manipulation
Èric Pairet, Paola Ardón, Michael Mistry +1
In an attempt to confer robots with complex manipulation capabilities, dual-arm anthropomorphic systems have become an important research topic in the robotics community. Most appr…
Learning and Generalisation of Primitives Skills Towards Robust Dual-arm Manipulation
Èric Pairet, Paola Ardón, Frank Broz +2
Robots are becoming a vital ingredient in society. Some of their daily tasks require dual-arm manipulation skills in the rapidly changing, dynamic and unpredictable real-world envi…
Testing SPARUS II AUV, an open platform for industrial, scientific and academic applications
Marc Carreras, Carles Candela, David Ribas +6
This paper describes the experience of preparing and testing the SPARUS II AUV in different applications. The AUV was designed as a lightweight vehicle combining the classical torp…